The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

In Hokusai's work, you see boats being tossed about the waves, men holding on for their lives. In my interpretation, I decided to paint it from the perspective of being on the boat. Great Wave is a piece created to find one's center through this massive amount of Chaos we find ourselves within. Our stability is a paper-thin mustache above the grin of our Universe. And on this vessel, we find a path through the cycles of the world.

The Sun draws the water up into the sky, cut by the mountains, and rivers back down to the ocean. Again, and again. From one perspective, it appears to be an ordered process, but if you look closely, its layers and layers of chaos on top of chaos with only membranes of Order. It never goes the same way twice.

As long as we stay focused on our center we will find a way, just keep moving forward. Even in the most intense of times that make mountains appear small, we somehow find our way. Our breathing the best tool to regulate the insanity.

My favorite commissions are the ones that come seeking help with a vision, one they want to capture deeper but need help. Something they are working through, or trying to let go, or simply just taking a moment to appreciate the beauty for what it is, beautiful. There is a magic about it.

The very best ones are the synchronicities that come where I can entwine something similar I am working through for myself. The energies combine, and you are not just riding a rogue wave, you become that rogue wave. I wonder if the DNA molecule is nothing more than one of these waves flowing through the ocean becoming aware of itself. Emerging in the most creative ways.

These are the thoughts that come when I paint. Is life still a dream?